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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to prevent third-party universal credit fraud.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1145971/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The information you have requested could only be provided by manually examining a substantial number of individual cases. The Department estimates that this would incur disproportionate costs.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>For the sake of clarity the policy is that an Administrative Penalty is only ever considered as an alternative to a referral for a prosecution in cases where benefit fraud has been committed, and not for innocent victims who report fraud.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many administrative penalties her Department has levied on victims of universal credit fraud who attended interviews under caution and who were accompanied by legal representatives.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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